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somewhat t clavate; 3rd very long; 5th and 6th nearly equal, slightly 
subconic, shorter than the 4th, equal in length to the 1st (remainder 
wanting). 
Thorax very little shorter than the width of its base, with the apex 
truncate, half the width of the base; sides obliquely dilated to behind the 
middle, then straight or scarcely widened towards the posterior angles, 
which are rectangular; base sinuate, its emargination moderate near the 
angles, its middle slightly produced, obtusely angular; posterior ridge very 
near the base, following exactly its sinuation, forming the apparent 
described angles, then running straightly upwards to the middle of 
the sides, of which it forms the margin to the obtuse angle where the nar¬ 
rowing commences; upper side convex, longitudinally elevated from the 
apex to the middle, where it is gibbous, then abruptly depressed; punctate- 
rugose, covered with a grayish brown pile, yellowish at the sides, having 
moreover a longitudinal line in the middle, wider near the base, interrupted 
above the gibbosity, then linear to the apex, formed of longer yellow hairs; 
the interrupted portion forming a pitchy spot, partly denudate, partly 
tomentous. 
Scutellum transversely oblong-ovate, densely covered with a yellowish 
gray pile. 
Elytra oblong-ovate, two and a half times longer than the thorax, and 
scarcely wider than its base ; base of each somewhat rounded in the 
middle; shoulders slightly produced; sides subparallel, or very slightly 
and roundly dilated to two-thirds of the length, then roundly narrowed to¬ 
wards the apex, which is conjointly subtruncate; transversely convex, 
especially anteriorly, with the suture somewhat depressed from the base to 
the middle ; obsoletely punctate-striate ; alternate interstices (but not the 
suture) elevated, the nearest to the suture (between the 2nd and 3rd striae) 
higher than the others, gibbous behind the base, then subdepressed as far 
as the middle, where it forms another much lower gibbosity, thence mode¬ 
rately elevated; it is twice somewhat interrupted upon the posterior 
declivity; 2nd scarcely more elevated in the middle, but posteriorly more 
so than elsewhere, forming there, with the posterior part of the 1st a dupli¬ 
cate callosity; 3rd subobsolete behind the shoulder, covered with a flaves- 
cent brown pile, condensed here and there into yellow markings, namely, 
1st, a nebulous central patch between the tubercles of the 1st elevated in¬ 
terstice, obsoletely extended laterally beyond the middle tubercle, nearly 
